Partituras de Joan Whittemore para coro infantil

With an accompaniment as playful as the vocal line, this is a great concert piece for beginning choirs.

Introduce your young singers to part-singing and variation form with this delightful piece, an adaptation of the familiar Alphabet Song.

This plantation song collected during the Civil War highlights the polyphony that call and response and echoing patterns produce. The melody moves from voice to voice to give each section an opportuni...

In the Farther Field, a haiku, the first of four songs form Scarecrow Songs, was written by Sanin and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. The haiku as a poe...

This piece employs the familiar melody Ah vous dirai-je mamam, and is based on the nursery rhyme about wool and taxes where a man harvests a third of his income (wool) for his master, another for his...

Yellow Evening Sun, the third haiku of Scarecrow Songs, was written by Shoha and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. This two-part counterpoint mimics the m...

Autumn Wind, a haiku of Issa (1763-1827) and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press, heralds the ominous onset of the perils of cold windy nights signalling pos...